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offers, sweet potatoes and fedoras

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i know, i'm a little behind on this process.  this week was a little crazy.  we got a call on tuesday letting us know we would have a showing on thursday.  this led to a scan of the house and a quick mutual conclusion between eric and i:  "oh crap."  i was proud of myself for still managing to cook a good dinner on wednesday (and a new recipe to boot) before we rushed around the house, cleaning in an absolute frenzy.

apparently it paid off, because we got an offer on the house yesterday!  we are still in the process of negotiating, but God willing, we will hopefully begin looking for our next home this week.  i am still trying to find all of our before pictures from when eric first moved into the place pre-engagement so i can show all of the updates we made in our 2 1/2 years here.  it'll be fun to see the differences.  more on that later.  oh, and also i got into a car accident which was so stupid of me and now i'm really embarrassed because it was all my fault and i will never drink coffee in the car again and i've totally learned my lesson and can we please never talk about it again?

now, to play catch-up.  my first meal for this 30 day challenge of mine was bbq beef sandwiches and sweet potato fries/chips:























i'll freely admit that i cheated on the beef by buying it prepared, but those sweet potatoes were all mine.  i'm proud to lay claim to them, because this is the first batch i've ever made that actually turned out crisp without being burnt.  sweet potatoes are tricky, y'all.  to finally get them right, i sliced them about 1/4" each, put them in a large ziploc bag with about a tablespoon EVOO (does this make anyone else think of Baby Mama and immediately giggle?) and some rosemary and shook it up.  then i baked them at 450 degrees on some parchment paper for about 30 minutes, flipping them over halfway through.  perfect.

it was the perfect summer meal to share on a great summer day with the hubs...and my new fedora.


please pay no mind to the ridiculously wonky state of my hair these days.  if you'd like to know why it's so awful, see more on my moronic promise to eric here.  needless to say, it's time to hack it all off for a trim *le sigh*.  my solution to the problem currently is wearing my hair up or wearing hats.  at least with hats, you can't see how wonky my roots are.  can i get an amen for hats?

i think i should go look for those house pictures now...

frugal friday

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i. hate. budgets.  for the past four months, eric and i have been on a pretty dang strict budget to allow us to pay a lot of moolah toward the student loans that built up while i was getting the degree that i'm not using (i swear i'm not bitter.  maybe a little).  the best thing that has resulted from this budget is my love for thrifting.  i know i'm a day late and a dollar short with this frugal friday post, but i have to share.  i have been wanting for some time to do a big wall piece of plates in our dining room, as we have a very large wall that i've been struggling with since we found the house (inspiration).  i understand that it is supposed to take some time to round up a good collection, but when you've got a salvation army as great as the one by my office downtown, sometimes it only takes two trips to find ten that coordinate pretty dang well.  i know i still have a way to go before filling the wall, but here's what i've got going on so far:




oooo...and see my little owl friend i found that matches the colors perfectly? i'm thinking of incorporating him somehow, hopefully along with some other little kitschy finds.

p.s. that's about $6 folks.  that's a small price to pay for pride in a job well done.





i got a fever, and the only prescription is more baby

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when eric and i got married in august 2009, we decided to wait anywhere from three to five years to start trying for a baby.  immediately, i had some co-workers at my old job who i swear set up a pool as to how long it would take us to conceive. i know none of them had us lasting more than a year.  and then there's my mom, who will say to us that we should wait until we're ready, but will tell anyone who is willing to listen that she is ready to be a grandma now yesterday. 

well, here we are 14 months later, still standing our ground.  or, at least one of us is.  in fact, eric is clinging to that ground.  and me, well, the baby bug is taking over a bit.  not enough to say, "let's go for it," but definitely enough to make me seek out cute little pinchable baby cheeks in others' blogs and daydream about the perfect nursery (fyi, i'm already 100% set if we have a girl).  and then there's the fact that everyone and their brother sister around us is having babies.  literally...one of my best fort wayne friends, katie, had a baby on easter, not even two months after her sister had a baby on valentines day.

so, just to remind me why we're waiting so maybe i can convince myself that i won't die if we wait another two years:

  • student loans...seriously, will those things ever go away??
  • i want to be able to stay home when we have our first kiddo
  • we've only been together (dating included) for just under 2 1/2 years.  do we really want a baby when our relationship is still a toddler?
  • we already have a ton of kids.  true, it would be awkward if we pinched the cheeks of our high schoolers in young life, but they're still cute and we love them just the same.
  • i love sleep.
  • two puppies + baby = ??!!!?
now i just need to stop torturing myself by looking at adorable chunkers like this one:

seriously...is death by cutenss possible?  if so, i'm gone.

(credit to my amazing wedding photographer, mandy, for capturing this little punkin. seriously, she's wonderful, and not just because that picture of eric and i at the top of her blog is also hanging in her studio and her new wedding boutique.  but seriously, it doesn't hurt her case.)